Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.
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As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.
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It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
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Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
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If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.
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That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.
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Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.
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Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave
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It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
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The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
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The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.
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Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
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